Plastisol is the material every soft plastic fishing lure is made from. Understanding it — what it is, how it behaves, how to work with it, and how it fails — is the difference between pouring baits that fish well and last, and pouring baits that tear, scorch, go brittle, or come out of the…
It isn’t heat — it’s chemistry. Touching the wrong two plastics is enough to turn a bait to mush at room temperature. You open the tackle tray after a few weeks and find a horror scene: two baits fused into one sticky, half-liquid blob, sometimes welded right to the bottom of the box. Proper soft…
A soft plastic moves like living flesh because, like flesh, it’s part spring and part fluid at the same time. Soft plastic lure action is what makes a bait look alive in the water. You can nail the color. You can match the shape to the forage perfectly. And a fish will still swim up,…
